Andy Lipkis, Founder and President of TreePeople, describes how this organization has pioneered an integrated approach to managing urban ecosystems as watersheds in the Los Angeles region. This inv...
Andy Lipkis, Founder and President of TreePeople, describes how this organization has pioneered an integrated approach to managing urban ecosystems as watersheds in the Los Angeles region. This involves strategic tree planting, tree-mimicking technologies, and community engagement to generate multiple solutions to the environmental threats facing our cities, including ensuring a sustainable water supply, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing water and air pollution, fostering stronger neighborhoods, and creating jobs. For a summary of TreePeople's six demonstration projects that are now collecting 1.25 million gallons of water every time it rains 1" in Los Angeles, visit www. treepeople.org. Video Going to Green: Planting Seeds of Change with Community Forestry produced by the Media & Policy Center Foundation for PBS.
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This video and the information given in its short fifteen minutes needs to be seen by everyone in the U.S. and particularly by those threatened by "drought" in the south west areas. We have the solutions to our dilemmas - where is Mainstream Media - place these kinds of stories on your front pages and make headline news with the solutions to our problems and do humanity some good!
The economic effect of improving the environment like all other positive progress of any kind is to make land more valuable. The value of land is held mostly in private hands and is the entire motivation for all land speculation and environmental abuse. Since all land value is created 100% by the community as a whole it will be necessary to shift our tax systems to taxes on land values to capture the value we all create to pay for community services and projects like the ones promoted here.
The movement to shift taxes onto land values is much larger and more profound in its implications for greening cities, providing the economic incentive for cities to rebuild while becoming more compact with less carbon foot print and ending urban sprawl than than most people know or are even willing to think about since the favorite American game is to reap unearned rewards by speculating with land which is the underlying motivation for all real estate investment for profit over real use.
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